Synodic month length 29.37 days

Length of current 145 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 47 minutes. It is 1 hour and 27 minutes shorter than next lunation 146 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 57 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 12 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 9 October 2011 Sunday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠350.1°

This New Moon true anomaly is ∠350.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠5.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).

Moon before apogee

11 days after point of perigee on 28 September 2011 at 01:01 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 12 October 2011 at 11:43 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 401 585 km

Moon after ascending node

7 days after its ascending node on 2 October 2011 at 09:09 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 16 October 2011 at 21:01 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

Moon after southern standstill

7 days after previous South standstill on 2 October 2011 at 11:38 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-22.791°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠22.665° in the next northern standstill on 17 October 2011 at 02:06 in ♊ Gemini.